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23 May 2023, 12:25 pm

IsabellaLinton wrote:
What do you mean by tweaking behaviours?
At first I thought you meant twerking. :lol:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotypy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punding

Those two articles explain what I meant pretty well.

TL;DR:
A stereotypy is a repetitive or ritualistic movement, posture, or utterance. Stereotypies may be simple movements such as body rocking, or complex, such as self-caressing, crossing and uncrossing of legs, and marching in place.

Punding is compulsive performance of repetitive, mechanical tasks, such as assembling and disassembling, collecting, or sorting household objects. The term was originally coined to describe complex prolonged, purposeless, and stereotyped behaviour in phenmetrazine and chronic amphetamine users


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23 May 2023, 12:35 pm

funeralxempire wrote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotypy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punding

Those two articles explain what I meant pretty well.

TL;DR:
A stereotypy is a repetitive or ritualistic movement, posture, or utterance. Stereotypies may be simple movements such as body rocking, or complex, such as self-caressing, crossing and uncrossing of legs, and marching in place.

Punding is compulsive performance of repetitive, mechanical tasks, such as assembling and disassembling, collecting, or sorting household objects. The term was originally coined to describe complex prolonged, purposeless, and stereotyped behaviour in phenmetrazine and chronic amphetamine users


Huh! I've never heard those words! Very cool, and thanks for the info.
Of course I know about both types of behaviour. I just didn't know they had names.
It makes sense that it's a dopamine thing.
Seems everything these days is a dopamine thing.

I do a lot of the first one (Stereotypy), but not the second.


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